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Monthly Reading May 1, 2016

The Ideal of a Universal Religion

What then do I mean by the ideal of a universal religion? I do not mean any one universal philosophy, or any one universal mythology, or any one universal ritual
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Monthly Reading April 3, 2016

A Letter: “The Gate to Liberation Is Open”

. . . One gets a human body as a result of great merit in past lives. Once one is born as a human being, the gate to liberation is
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Monthly Reading March 17, 2016

The Mind Is Everything

Do your duty with one hand and with the other hold to God. After the duty is over, you will hold to God with both hands.
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Monthly Reading February 7, 2016

This Same Freedom Is in You

Blessedness, eternal peace, arising from perfect freedom, is the highest concept of religion underlying all the ideas of God in Vedanta—absolutely free existence, not bound by anything, no change, no
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Monthly Reading January 21, 2016

Sri Ramakrishna Showers His Grace

On 1 January 1886, the Master [Sri Ramakrishna] felt better and expressed a desire to walk in the garden for a short while. Because it was a holiday, the householder
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Monthly Reading December 18, 2015

From Meister Eckhart

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever
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Monthly Reading November 8, 2015

Selections on The Divine Mother

“You see, I cannot but believe that there is somewhere a great power that thinks of herself as feminine and is called Kali and Mother. . . . And I believe in Brahman, too.”
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Monthly Reading October 11, 2015

Swami Vivekananda on Belur Math

Belur Math, 9 December 1898 • Sri Ramakrishna said to me [at Cossipore], “Wherever you will take me on your shoulders, there I will go and stay, be it under
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Monthly Reading September 9, 2015

Maya versus Daya

Master: “The feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ is ignorance. People say that Rani Rasmani built the Kali temple; but nobody says it was the work of God. They say that
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Monthly Reading July 5, 2015

The First Lamp

When I say “I,” I mean this spirit. Close your eyes and see what picture appears when you think of your “I.” Is it the picture of your body that
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